Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret the Isolationist command-some ten Senators, some 50 House members-met in the Caucus room of the Senate Office Building one night last week, gloomily chewed the bitter cud of defeat, gloomily decided that even a Senate filibuster was out of the question. Missing was their best strategist, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, who was out beating the bushes for some additional Isolationist recruits...
...Actually Semion Budenny is a man. He has lots of brawn on his fine body, but he also has more than his share of bone between his ears. He always was, and probably still is, a great fighter. But he is not a strategist. He is still a cavalry noncom of incredible dash and dumbness...
...class of former years when they won four World Series in a row (1936-37-38-39). Creaking Charlie Ruffing, their 36-year-old ace, has won only 15 games this year. So has Lefty Gomez, another World Series standby. But methodical Manager Joe McCarthy, the Yankees' master strategist, is noted for his skill at manipulating pitchers. He has nine more, though mediocre, to call...
...minor civil-service employe, Marshal Shaposhnikov was born in the town of Zlatoust in the Urals, in 1910 was top man at the Moscow Imperial Academy. By 1917 he had become a Tsarist colonel. The next year he joined the Red Army and became a prime strategist of the war on the Whites. He has been an active Commander of the Leningrad, Moscow and Volga military districts, Chief of Staff, head of the Frunze Military Academy (Soviet West Point), and he joined Comrade Stalin at the signing of the Russo-German Pact (see cut). But his reputation has always been...
...Court unless he went as Chief Justice, but last week there was no mistaking Robert Jackson's elation. Chief reservation about him was that (as his intemperate campaign speeches revealed) he lacked the judicial temperament. A Democrat, a mild Wilsonian radical, Robert Jackson was the foremost legal strategist of the New Deal, who had carried out a welter of partisan tasks for the President. But it was agreed that he was mellowing, and it was considered likely that the Court would have as much influence on him as he had on it. Senator Byrnes, an able parliamentarian, a remarkably...